If you haven’t heard this by now, you are going to worry me…. get on Twitter! We’ll talk more about this in class, but here are some Twitter terms you should know. Source: These are complied from Twitter’s own glossary, Wikipedia and my own definitions.

\ˈfāl\ \ˈwāl\ When Twitter experiences an outage, users see the “fail whale” error message image created by Yiying Lu, illustrating several red birds using a net to hoist a whale from the ocean captioned “Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.” This term is not listed in Twitter’s glossary.

Please note:
* People will only see replies in their Home timeline if they are following both the sender and recipient of the update.

* People will see mentions in their timeline even if they don’t follow the person mentioned – as long as they follow the sender, they’ll see the mention in their timeline (It’s treated like a regular Tweet.)

* People with protected accounts cannot send replies to people who aren’t following them, and mentions won’t be seen by non-followers either.

* If someone sends you a reply and you are not following the user, the reply will not appear on your Home timeline. Instead, the reply will appear in your Mentions timeline.